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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1996
Page
3
Editorial urges Ottawa residents near gravel roads to back a city led paving effort. Under a 75 to 25 percent cost split, the city would fund most of the project with landowners covering the remainder. A meeting at Ottawa Middle School will detail cost breakdowns and process for formation of the paving district.
Guest editorials note opinions, Carla Stovall, Kansas attorney general, accepted a diamond bracelet from Bill Koch. The amount is estimated between 1500 and 5000 dollars. She plans to return the gift with a polite refusal, as lawmakers debate campaign contribution limits and lobbying.
Readers are invited to send signed letters with the writer’s address and a telephone number for verification. Unsigned submissions will not be published.
The piece weighs potential running mates for Dole as several governors John Engler Tommy Thompson George Voinovich Jim Edgar and Christie Whitman loom among top options. Colin Powell remains a distant possibility while Jack Kemp Indiana’s Dan Quayle and Bill Bennett are also discussed. The author leans Kemp as likely but notes a swing-state gubernatorial pick could prevail if Clinton leads at the convention.
A columnist curates favorite quotations from noted authors to enrich public talks. He highlights concise, category organized lines from Lincoln Twain Adams Churchill Jefferson Kipling and others, noting their lessons on action, success, and virtue.
A reader criticizes hiring rules and rails-to-trail plans and urges a public vote on the rail-trail project. He questions the high school diploma requirement for operators, cites tax costs, and notes he is running for county commissioner against the proposal. He emphasizes personal tax concerns and local city funding already committed.
A reader criticizes the rails to trail project as a waste of public money arguing the route from Ottawa to Garnett offers little beauty and would raise taxes. The letter questions library and plaza renovations, urges keeping the library in its current setting, and condemns juvenile house arrest as a misused expense.
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